Mexico to Abolish the Public Domain?

Anonymous Mexican Coward writes "The mexican congress is considering a revision of the copyright law. Among other changes the law will extend the term of copyright from life-plus-70 to life-plus-100, and at the end of that term, the mexican government has the right to charge royalties for works in the "public domain." Go Mexico! Check it out"

Comments

Go Mexico?

[bobobobo]

Wait I'm confused, isn't this a bad thing?

Re:Go Mexico?

[istartedi]

Obviously, the author wants Mexico to leave North America.

Re:Go Mexico?

[quantaman]

I don't know. I mean it couldn't possibly of been scarcasm or somthing like that, the poster must of just been a member of the *AA, yeah that must be it.

Re:Go Mexico?

[MasTRE]

>Wait I'm confused, isn't this a bad thing?

Sarcasm, my furry little friend..

Re:Go Mexico?

[MrEd]

n. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who
doesn't get it.

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(shamelessly cribbed from the Washington Post's Style Invitational)

Breaking news!

[Lord Bitman]

Mexico may /not/ be the best place to go if you enjoy various liberties!

Re:Breaking news!

[Ryan Amos]

In Mexico, politicians can be bought... but at least there we can afford it. :)

Why?

[Kelz]

Its not like there were any groundbreaking inventions coming out of mexico... besides maybe the double-sided bong?

Re:Why?

[nursedave]

So what? I shaved with Occam's Razor this morning.

Damn, I'm smooth.

Mexico

[Michael Hunt]

Damn! Does that mean I'll need to pay royalties to the Mexican government every time I sit on my porch wearing one of those stupid hats, drinking Tequila and strumming the ukulele?

What a shame.

Billy Gates gets his wish

[Black Knight_61]

Next /. posting
Microsoft anounces office 2003 will not be copyrighted in the U.S. but is copyrighted in Mexico. When asked why this strange development a senior microsoft spokesmen says:
"Mexican law is a lot like it's labor, cheap to buy and it does what we tell it to do."

In a Related Story,

[FFtrDale]

a spokesman for RIAA announced that their acronym will now stand for "...of the Americas" and that the Mexican Army is now their wholly-owned subsidiary.

Regime change

[bgeer]

Let me guess, Vincente Fox is cracking down on mexican bureaucrats taking drug cartel bribes, so they are taking RIAA/MPAA cartel bribes instead.

The scary thing I'm not sure which is worse.

Re:Sounds like a hoax to me

[Paradise Pete]

Anyway, any email from a alleged company formed by ?almost 10 IP experts?

Yeah. And maybe that's binary.

In Other News

[MulluskO]

The Disney Corporation[DIS] has moved its official corporate headquarters along with the contents of the infamous Disney Vault to Mexico City, Mexico. In a press release the company stated that in addition to retaining existing intellectual property under Mexican law, Disney would be introducing a brand new character, "El Ratón Mickey." The new character's copyright is not expected to expire until 2525. The copyright's official and legal creator, Servando Marques, is a Mexican citizen and cartoonist, bioimagineered for unnaturally long life.

Re:Situational Irony

[more fool you]

and yet twice as good as XP. go figure

In other news...

[quintessent]

Israel will begin collecting royalties on any publication of the Book of Genesis. This new plan is also retroactive to any copies you may have purchased in the past. I'll post the Pay Pal address later, so you can all pay up.